To be honest, I’m kinda of a quitter. I start things and quit things pretty often. Ceramics is the one thing I’ve never quit.

I began learning ceramics when my Zaydie (grandfather in Yiddish) took me for classes at our local Arts Center in Brookline, Mass. I was around 4 years old. 

My grandmother had been a potter, but I never met her. Zaydie supported her work entirely, and when I was born, he supported my work too. 

The audacity to choose ceramics as my career came from a Princeton fellowship I did in Costa Rica, where I was alone all the time in the rainforest.

I missed ceramics dearly. I collected mud and tried to turn it into clay.

When I got back to the States, I moved to Georgia and got an Artist in Residency position at a really cool studio called Mudfire.

And now I do ceramics full-time!

I’m interested in making ceremonial objects. I love ritual. Anything that brings us together and allows us to reflect, celebrate, be grateful, I’m here for it.

I love functional ceramics, but I also want my work to function during special times, not just the day-to-day. This is why I focus on making wine goblets or Kiddush cups.

I am deeply interested in the long long long loooooong global history of pottery, and I feel grateful to be part of a line of potters that includes my grandmother and thousands of years of potters before her. Hopefully many after me.